#opinio

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#direct #direct experience #discursive #everything #instead

The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#know #must #opinions #people #their

Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#just #men #opinions #vested #vested interests

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#opinion #opinions #public #public opinion #times

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#array #feminism #idea #mean #media

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#nor #opinion #run #thought #world

I tell it like it is, but I don't voice my opinion unless it's asked for. ↗

— Tito Jackson

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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#could #crops #fear #grown #long

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ↗